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  1. Klueless

    can anyone justify the price of wifi6 ax mesh

    Myself I appreciate and salute any and all early adopters who buy leading edge products. Without their support these products would never make it to mainstream to become affordable commodities for trailing edge type guys like me. For example it was so not me to rush out and buy a $1,300 Apple...
  2. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    I almost hate going back to the past especially in light of the OP's new approach of checking out lower overhead VPN alternatives (e.g., Wireguard, etc) but this --> recent post did remind me that RMA is still a valid alternative for some of us.
  3. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    Intriguing. So much I don't know. You mentioned that you wanted to run a VPN client on your router. Is that because you didn't want to load a VPN client on all your computing devices? (That might become an alternative in another month : -) Does everything connect to a VPN service for...
  4. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    Thank you kindly. I really expected better even w/o hardware acceleration. That is detailed enough to keep me from making the wrong mistake : -) Didn't know, that has hardware encryption? Best of luck!
  5. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    What VPN speeds did you see with the other home routers you tested? (Wanting to learn from you.) No worries, it was brought up ...
  6. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    Thanks for the followup and sorry about your disappointment. Perhaps we can learn from you? What are your ISP speeds? What VPN speeds did you see with your most recent experiments? What were you seeing with the 86U? (when it worked : -) I did hear you. The 86U is dead to you. And that is...
  7. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    Does that suggest that the Netgear R7800 would not do hardware encryption in support of peppy VPN performance?
  8. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    How is it with VPN?
  9. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    I can't disagree with @Trip 's wisdom. That said I've three sites, requirements are modest, my skills are even more modest (and I'm lazy to boot) so I've made do with consumer grade products. Perhaps luck of the draw but everything has been awesome. But, in support of Trip's comment, one site...
  10. Klueless

    New wireless setup

    Ah, most disappointing especially after a successful run with the ol' N66U. I did similar. Loved the N66U so much when it came time for upgrades I stuck with Asus; upgraded two sites to the 86U and home to the Blue Cave. One of the 86Us was problematic, I almost threw in the towel (trouble...
  11. Klueless

    Reaching 1 gbps using RT-AC86U and PCE-AC68?

    Full disclosure; take anything from a guy who calls himself @Klueless with a grain of salt : -) Our very own @thiggins offers some excellent insights; His Reveiw on the RT86U His test methodologies While much of what THiggins writes is over my head my take away is your wireless speeds are...
  12. Klueless

    Looking for two Lap tops, Can I get some help choosing which.

    Didn't know so I couldn't. If I knew I might've. (I'm old, last time I saw Cisco anything they were thousands!) One company, two sites about 5 miles apart. It's been years now but one site was an old G Netgear. The other site was a newer (single band N) Netgear which was replaced with a...
  13. Klueless

    Looking for two Lap tops, Can I get some help choosing which.

    As usual you make a valid point. I have a part time job at a small company. I pick up cars, dump the trash, shovel snow and, occasionally, set up a computer or two. There are about 25 of us, 20 computers plus smart phones, coupla servers, networked printers, etc. The only thing reliable...
  14. Klueless

    10GB NIC only getting 1GB speeds

    Sometimes you don't always measure what you think you're measuring. For example your "read" speeds are triple your "write" speeds. That discrepancy suggests your data resides on disk; which is fine if you're speed testing your disk drives or, maybe, "fast (100 Mbps) Ethernet" but the disk...
  15. Klueless

    Low wan speed AC-68U

    Clarification? "ISP Router" - 600 Mbps over Ethernet, wireless or what? I'm going to "guess" you're getting 600 over Ethernet? "AC-68U" - 350 Mbps over Ethernet, wireless or what? I'm going to "guess" you're getting 350 over wireless(?) which, according to the @dlandiss link, is very reasonable.
  16. Klueless

    Cascading router

    I agree. I found myself in a similar situation once. I had a modem to my router. Switched ISPs and the new ISP put in a modem/router and refused to "bridge" it. I could've removed my router but I had some internal services with static IPs which meant I would have had to reconfig a dozen some...
  17. Klueless

    Wireless Printer vs. Wireless Print Server

    I agree with @ColinTaylor When I think of Ethernet; I think of speed and stability. I also think of the inconvenience of cabling and placement. When I think of printing; I think of low bandwidth needs "batch" (e.g., not interactive, no need for an instant screen response). By the time I get...
  18. Klueless

    AiMesh half duplex?

    I lifted this from SNB Reviews; "One thing AiMesh will do to attempt to avoid congestion is bandsteer clients from the backhaul band to the other. In my case, this meant steering from 5 GHz (where all clients initially connected) to 2.4 GHz. To be clear, this is a good move: you don't want the...
  19. Klueless

    AsusWRT and guest network with no intranet access on AP mode

    <lol> I love it! Definitely challenging : -) As per @Ronald Schwerer you would keep the wired AP (for main in-house access) and add a repeater connecting to the router's guest SSID for IoT. But, as per you, try and find a "free" band. That doesn't mean "cross connect" wouldn't work. Yes...
  20. Klueless

    AsusWRT and guest network with no intranet access on AP mode

    Intriguing. Since you were able to able to run a wire for an AP why not run a wire to relocate your router to a more advantageous location? How big is the house? Is it possible if the router was in a better location it might actually cover the whole house? Great idea. Elsewhere you talk...
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